Cigar.



H. SCHWARTZ.

I CIGAR.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 18, 1910.

1,91 3,226 Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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HARRY SCHWARTZ, OF NEW YORK; N. Y.

CIGAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

Application filed November 18, 1910. Serial No. 593,007.

T 0 all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and Stateof New York, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements inCigars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to an improvement in cigars, as well as a methodof forming same.

The object of the invention is to produce a cigar having a central drafttube or duct, the purpose of the said tube or duct belng to provide ameans whereby a perfect draft from the lighted end, or tuck, of thecigar to the head thereof can be maintained should the wrapper orwrapper and filler of the cigar become broken intermediate the tuck andhead of the cigar.

I am aware that cigars have been made having central draft tubes orducts, but such tubes or ducts were, to the best of my knowledge, madeof rice paper, wood-pulp and other foreign substances.

One of the features of my improvement is a draft tube, or duct, whichextends the length of the cigar, the said tube being made out of thesame grade of tobacco asthe rest of the cigar, more especially thefiller.

To form a draft tube from a tobacco leaf, I do not resort to anyadhesive elements, but wind the leaf, while damp, around a suitablyshaped mandrel. Before removing the mandrel or core from the tube, Iapply the filler of the cigar, the binder and the wrapper. In otherwords, I form the cigar around the tube before removlng the core fromthe said tube. The tube is formed by spirally winding around the core adamp leaf of tobacco.

To form my improved cigar, I commence to wind from the tuck and seal, oranchor, the leaf at the head of the cigar, and consequently, when thecigar is ignited it will not peel, for the reason that the leavesoverlap and it is always the under leaf that burns, or rather the leaf.that is held down.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail and more fullyexplain the method of forming my improved cigar, the novelfeatureswhereof will be pointed out in the claim, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming part hereof wherein:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved cigar; Fig. 2is an enlarged cross sectional view, the section being taken on a line ar; in Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a diagrammatic perspective view illustrating themanner of forming the draft tube or duct; Fig. 4: is an enlarged sideelevation of a finished tube, the core for forming same being alsoshown; Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective detail view illustrating themanner of winding the wrapper on the filler and binder; and Fig. 6 is anenlarged perspective detail view of the head end of a cigar, showing thelast step in forming same.

Referring to the drawing, my improved cigar consists of a central drafttube or duct 1 about which the body 2 of the cigar is formed, the saidbody terminating in a head 3 and tuck at. The terms head and tucktechnically indicate, respectively, that end which is out off, when thecigar is to be smoked, and the end which is ignited. By an inspection ofFig. 1 it will be seen that the draft tube or duct l is tapered, 0rfunnel shaped, the larger end of which is located at the tuck 4 of thecigar. The tapering of the duct 1 is an important feature of myinvention, as will hereinafter appear.

To fully set forth my improvement, I will describe the process offorming the cigar. Firstly, I take a tapered mandrel or core indicatedby 2 and wind around the same a leaf of tobacco 5 (Fig. It will be seen,by referring to Fig. 3 that I commence to wind adjacent the larger end 6of the mandrel 2 that end of the leaf at which the winding is startedbeing the tuck end. The

mandrel is rotated in a direction indicated by the arrow 7 whereby atube or duct is formed by causing the leaf to wrap around the mandrelspirally toward the head end 8 thereof. After having wound the leaf, theend 9 thereof will overlap the head end of the mandrel. I then twist theoverlapped end, in order to seal the tube, as indicated by 10 Fig. 4. Itmay be here stated that the leaf of tobacco 5 will be damp when wound;consequently I do not have to resort to adhesives to seal the end of thetube, as referred to above. While the tube or duct 1 is still damp, andbefore removing the mandrel 2 there-from, I apply the filler and windthe same around the tube 1, the same way and in the same direction asdescribed for the leaf 5 to form the tube 1, or I may, as is usuallydone, place the filler, in the form of strips of tobacco, around thesaid tube 1,

a and apply the binder. The binder is wound cigar and work the saidbody,

1n the same manner and in the same direction as above described. Thebinder is indicated by 11 in Fig. 5. After the binder is applied I placethe Wrapper on to complete the body of the cigar. I wind the wrapperindicated by 12 in Fig. 5, in the same manner and in the same directionas that of the leaf 5, and binder 11. In-order'to provide a meanswhereby the head and tuck of the cigar can be finished oil. I allow theWrapper 12 to overlap the said tuck and head. When the wrapper has beenapplied, I slit the head end ofthe leaf, as at 13 Fig. 6. After havingslit the said leaf, I press a suitable tool or hard article against thebody of the by the fingers, to the desired shape, such as indicated inFig. 1. After the required shape has been produced, I press a suitabletool or hard article against the formed end and apply paste of thevariety used for this purpose. By slitting the leaf, I am able to workthe end of the cigar to the proper shape without producing creases. Ithen work the tuck of the cigar in the same manner. As the abovedescribed operation is performed while the tobacco is damp, there is nodanger of breaking the leaves.

From the foregoing description, and inspection of the drawing, it willbe obvious that each layer or convolution of the wrapper 12 is held downby the adjacent rearwardly directed layer, and that as the cigar burnsthe layer that is being consumed is always the held down layer;consequently the wrapper will not readily peel.

After the tuck 4 and head 3 have been formed, I withdraw the mandrel 2The object of tapering the mandrel 2 is for the purpose of readywithdrawal. To withdraw the mandrel it is but necessary to give it aslight turn, in order to free it from the tube, and then pull itoutwardly. Owing to the tapered form of the mandrel, it can be withdrawnwithout tearing the material of the It should be carefully noted thatthe to-' bacco tubes or ducts which I employ are not made in quantitiesand used as required, but

are preferably made just before the cigars are formed and before thematerial thereof from damp,

dries. To make a tube or duct tobacco and allow it to dry before usewould not be practicable, as the tube would crack as soon as handled.The said tubes would most certainly crack as soon as an attempt to forma cigar thereabout was made.

I have found that in order to make a central draft duct or tube fromtobacco and to locate same in a cigar, it is necessary that a leaf ofthe same should be formed on a tapered mandrel, while damp, and thefiller, binder and wrapper be applied thereabout before withdrawing thesaid mandrel.

Having now described my invention, w t I claim and desire to secure byLetters Liam ent is:

The method of manufacturing cigars consisting of the following steps;first, wrapping a cured tobacco leaf flexible and adhesive by reason ofits natural juices around a tapered mandrel and twisting it beyond thesmall end thereof; filler, binder and wrapper successively around thesame while still damp, the wrapper being permitted to overlap both endsof the cigar; thirdly slitting the wrapper at the head endand shapingthe body and tuck by manipulation and finally withdrawing the mandrel soas'to leave a central longitudinal draft tube from end to end of theclgar.

Signed at New York city, N. Y. this 17 day of November 1910.

HARRY SCHWARTZ.

Witnesses:

ESTELLE O. HAMBURGER. Eownsn A. JARVIS:

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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